Yahoo Inc. on Tuesday said it is launching a service in the United States that lets people make phone calls through the company's instant messaging software.

Available in several other countries since December, the service allows people to make calls from their computers for 2 cents a minute or less to the top

SANTA CLARA, Calif. — Making good on a promise made last year, Sun Microsystems announced the release of open-source hardware and software specifications for its multi-threaded UltraSparc T1 (Niagara) processor, now called OpenSparc T1, Tuesday (March 21) at the Multicore Expo here.

The OpenSparc T1 is a 64-bit, 32-thread processor design free

Germany's Siemens and Finland's Nokia are equipping T-Mobile's mobile phone network to speed up third-generation services such as Internet surfing and downloading movies in Germany and Austria.
 
Siemens said on Tuesday it was the main supplier to T-Mobile, the mobile phone unit of Deutsche Telekom, and a Siemens spokeswoman said

Open Country Inc. on Tuesday expects to officially launch OCM 3.0 Universal Linux System Management Suite. By year's end, the company also will release versions to support Solaris and Windows environments, a company executive told TechWeb.
 
OCM 3.0 supports global IT support vendors and IT departments that manage appliances, blade

HOD HASHARON, Israel — Sharp Corp. will use Red Bend Software’s mobile software management technology and its firmware over the air (FOTA) update client suite to allow customers to wirelessly download software upgrades to the Vodafone 904SH handset offered by Vodafone KK in Japan. This function will let Vodafone 904SH customers upgrade their phones

Google plans to launch on Tuesday a financial news and information Web site called Google Finance that will be in direct competition with well-established ones such as Yahoo's Yahoo Finance and Microsoft's MSN Money.
 
Development of such a Web site has been one of the top requests from Google users, says

More than 75% have experienced a business disruption in the past five years, including 20% who say the disruption had a serious impact on the business, according to a recent survey of data center managers.

Business technology managers are facing tough challenges as data centers grow larger and more complex. More than

Under growing pressure due to declining revenues, European telecommunications operators will do well to turn to Internet Protocol television (IPTV) for further growth, a study said Tuesday.

Almost on cue, Deutsche Telecom announced it will begin delivering enhanced TV in a few months.

Frost and Sullivan, which released the report,

Novell has laid out a fresh vision for its future, highlighting several new products such as its just-released SuSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 10 operating system, and also being frank about the work left to be done.
 
The road map was articulated by Novell Chairman and Chief Executive Jack Messman at

MANHASSET, NY — The IEEE launched an Nanoelectronics Standards Roadmap initiative Tuesday (March 21) to forge industry standards for nanotechnology.
 
The effort is designed to move nanoelectronics innovations from laboratory to the marketplace for applications ranging from communications, information technology, consumer products and optoelectronics.

IEEE will host a roadmap